procure
vt. 取得,獲得; 實現,完成; 導致
vi. 取得; 介紹娼妓,拉皮條
If you procure something, especially something that is difficult to get, you obtain it.
It remained very difficult to procure food, fuel and other daily necessities.
食物、燃料和其他日用必需品仍然很難得到。
If someone procures a prostitute, they introduce the prostitute to a client.
He procured girls of 16 and 17 to be mistresses for his influential friends.
他介紹了些十六七歲的女孩給他那些有權勢的朋友當情人。
1. get by special effort;
2. arrange for sexual partners for others
Try to procure us some specimens of the polluted water from the river.
請設法給我們從河裡搞一些被汙染了的河水標本來.
To raise esteem we must benefit others, to procure love we must please them.
要提升尊敬,我們必須使人覺得受益;要獲得熱愛,我們必須使人感到愉快.
I cannot procure employment.
我不能求得職業.
Please procure me some specimens.
請設法為我搞到一些標本.
In my own city my name, in a strange city my clothes procure me respect.
居家重名譽;出門重衣衫.